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FRIDAY, Oct. 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Wastewater (WW) surveillance allows monitoring of endemic respiratory viral infections, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDWeek), held from Oc...

VIERNES, 13 de octubre de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A los hombres de todas las razas y grupos étnicos que tienen cáncer de próstata les va igual de bien cuando el acceso a la atención es idéntico, según un nuevo estudio.La disparidad en los resultados ...

VIERNES, 13 de octubre de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Después de un esfuerzo colosal de cinco años, los investigadores han presentado un "atlas" que ofrece una visión sin precedentes de las complejidades del cerebro humano.El atlas, que estará disponible...

- VIERNES, 13 de octubre de 2023 (HealthDay News)-- Una nueva guía de cuatro organizaciones médicas líderes debería ayudar a los médicos a determinar si alguien ha sufrido muerte cerebral.“Hasta ahora, ha habido dos guías separadas para determinar la ...

VIERNES, 13 de octubre de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Una nueva investigación sugiere que las personas hispanas con enfermedad renal crónica deberían someterse a exámenes cardíacos tempranos, ya que están en alto riesgo de sufrir un paro cardíaco repenti...

FRIDAY, Oct. 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Following a rocky rollout, more than 7 million Americans have now gotten the newly updated COVID vaccines.Unfortunately, that’s still lagging behind the number who sought booster shots last fall. For the the f...

No one wants to consider what might happen if they were injured at work, but it's to your benefit to be familiar with workers' compensation and how it works just in case. Learn all about workers' comp (formerly known as workman's comp): what it is, wh...

FRIDAY, Oct. 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Extra efforts by primary care doctors to reach out to patients who need follow-up after an abnormal cancer test result leads to better results in getting that care, a new clinical trial shows.The trial involve...

FRIDAY, Oct. 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Drawing smaller amounts of blood from patients in the intensive care unit could lead to fewer blood transfusions, according to new research.The large clinical trial in Canada found that making this small chang...

THURSDAY, Oct. 12, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- An estimated 21.2 percent of U.S. adults had diagnosed arthritis from 2019 to 2021, with most cases among adults aged 45 years and older, according to research published in the Oct. 13 issue of the U.S. Cen...

THURSDAY, Oct. 12, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The emergency department visit rate for assault was 4.5 visits per 1,000 people per year during 2019 to 2021, according to an October data brief published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevent...

THURSDAY, Oct. 12, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For Hispanic or Latino adults, chronic kidney disease is the strongest risk factor for sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), according to a study published online Oct. 11 in the Journal of the American Heart Associat...

THURSDAY, Oct. 12, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Men of all races and ethnic groups who have prostate cancer fare equally well when access to care is identical, a new study finds. The disparity in outcomes from prostate cancer between Black, Hispanic and w...

THURSDAY, Oct. 12, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Severe inflammation very early in childhood might hamper the development of key brain cells, perhaps setting the stage for conditions such as autism or schizophrenia, new research suggests.The origins of man...